Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined the mounting criticism of federal judges by President Donald Trump and others in his administration on Saturday, mocking the judge who blocked a ban on ...

The Secretary of Defense attacked a federal judge Saturday, mocking her as a "top military planner" over her injunction ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he is appealing a block on an executive order from President Trump effectively preventing ...

The Trump administration asked a D.C.-based federal judge to dissolve a previous injunction blocking the Pentagon's ban on transgender troops ... of Defense expects to implement, were it not ...

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ruled in favor of transgender active-duty service members and transgender people in the process ...

A federal judge is hammering government lawyers with sharp questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... transgender troops’ gender identity, despite the majority of the country supporting ...

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Inc/Getty The Pentagon's updated policy follows President Donald Trump's Jan. 28 executive order calling to ban transgender troops from serving openly. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender ... Hegseth and other military officials from taking any steps to implement Trump ...

An earlier memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said that people ... Rights group have decried the push to ban transgender troops and say transgender people have served in the military ...

Karen Holmes, a trans woman who transitioned while in the military ... of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum for Pentagon leaders to enforce new rules on how transgender people will ...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a new Defense Department policy barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military ... that directed Hegseth to implement a policy ...